Skunk cannabis may be reclassified
19-May-2005, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
Drug experts will begin debating today whether stronger "skunk" varieties of cannabis should carry higher penalties for possession.
The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs, which meets in London, has been asked by the home secretary, ...
Man gets life sentence for selling designer drugs ...
17-May-2005, United States, Newsday.com
An Arizona man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for selling designer drugs over the Internet that led to the overdose death of a New York teenager.
David Linder, also known as Dr. Benway, was convicted in February of 27 counts, including ...
Marijuana policy just right
17-May-2005, United States, USA Today
By John Walters
Assertions that our nation's drug policy minimizes cocaine and heroin while focusing on marijuana are misleading. The fallacy involves interpreting drug arrests as signals of changed drug policy, rather than as indicators of drug ...
Mother who smuggled drugs to prison jailed
16-May-2005, United Kingdom, Cambridge Evening News
A WOMAN who tried to smuggle cannabis to her boyfriend in Littlehey Prison was led sobbing "my children, my children" from the dock at Peterborough Crown Court as she was jailed.
Margaret O'Reilly, 21, who was sent down for 14 months, stood to ...
Drugs policy up in smoke
15-May-2005, United Kingdom, Times Online
While Mark Lewis-Francis has lost a silver medal after traces of cannabis were found in his urine, blatant cheating over samples is left unpunished.
SOMETIMES you’ve got to laugh at the lengths to which sportsmen go to plead their innocence. ...
This pill will make you smarter
14-May-2005, United States, NewScientist
HAVING problems performing in the sack? Take Viagra. Got the jitters before that important presentation? Try beta blockers. Need to stay awake to finish that assignment? Pop a Provigil pill.
For those prepared to pay, the growing list of ...
Chinese mass media mobilized for "people's war" ...
13-May-2005, China, People's Daily
Similar special columns will appear on 41 major local newspapers from 28 provinces to support the country's "people's war" on drugs as of June 1, sources with China 's Public Security Ministry said.
It will be the first time that so many ...
The War on Pot
10-May-2005, United States, National Review
As the nation's "drug czar," John Walters is supposed to be saving us from the ravages of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine. At least that was the original sales pitch for the "war on drugs" in the 1980s. But the war has evolved into largely a ...
Inside the war on drugs
08-May-2005, United States, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
If a mere 10 percent of Don Winslow's new novel, "The Power of the Dog," were true, it would be horrifying.
"I would flip that ratio," Winslow says.
That 90 percent could be true is nearly unfathomable. "The Power of the Dog" chronicles the ...
Attacking Judges, Not Drugs
05-May-2005, United States, L.A. Times
One of every 138 U.S. residents is now serving time. Get-tough policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s — like three-strikes laws in California and other states — have swelled the jail and prison inmate population to a record 2.1 million, according a ...
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